Rogue warlord Sun Dianying

Sun Dianying, a typical representative of the declining warlords of the old era, was known as the "rogue warlord." His original name was Kui Yuan, also known as "Sun Laodian", because his face was smallpox, nicknamed "Sun Mazi". A native of Yongcheng County, Henan. He lost his father at an early age, and his mother doted on him and spoiled him, and since childhood he developed a mischievous and mischievous personality. When Sun Dianying was a teenager, he began to follow the local hooligans and often fell into gambling caves. People say that Mazi has many "ideas", and this phrase is not bad for Sun Dianying, who, with his crooked wisdom, soon became a famous gambling stick in the local area. It is said that he often used mahjong cards, Tianjiu cards and other gambling equipment as research objects to fiddle with, first wiping the back of the cards with cotton. Then examine its texture and identify its similarities and differences. No matter what kind of card it is, as long as it takes a short time to fiddle with it, he can remember the secret memory of each card, and without looking at the card surface, he can know the name of the card, and he can pick it up with his bare hands, and there are few mistakes. It is also said that he often carried a pair of dice in his pocket, practiced throwing in his spare time, and over time, he was handy, and when he wanted to roll it into several points, it was almost foolproof. Sun Dianying's gambling is closely related to his later development. When he was a warlord, he often hosted banquets for the managers of some banks and large military clothing houses, and after the banquets, as usual, there were so-called afterglows such as mahjong and tianjiu cards. On such occasions, Sun Dianying often received tens of thousands of yuan in huge sums of money at the end of the game, and he used these easily available money as capital to expand his strength and dredge up relations. He also often used gambling to win over some "pawn" figures, such as treating Zhang Zongchang and Chu Yupu's cronies, the generals of the Northeast Army, the Northwest Army, and the Jin Army, and he often returned the money he had earned to the losers, and even consciously played cards to win their favor. This trick worked very well, and won many people to say good things for him in the official arena. Another way for Sun Dianying to start his career was to deceive the support of Daoists through the feudal Sect Gate and expand his own power. At that time, the head of the "Temple Fair Road" in western Henan was named Li Fengchao, and Sun was Li's younger brother. Sun Dianying saw the influence and latent forces of the "Temple Fair Dao" among the peasants in western Henan, so he tried every possible means to use and manipulate it. After he mastered a handful of bandits, he once played a deceptive trick. He said in front of everyone that one night, he had a dream, and he dreamed that his ancestor pointed out that there was a sword hidden in a certain temple, called the "Tai'a Sword," which was given to him by God, and that he should hurry up and get it. So he got up and went to a certain temple, and when he arrived, he saw the bright light shining in the temple, and when he entered the door, it turned out that it was the Excalibur shining. After thanking God for his grace, he returned with his sword in his hand. This sword hung in his bedroom, and it often shone in the dark of night, and as long as the Excalibur sounded, it must kill people. His deceptive trick deliberately publicized it among the disciples, so Sun Dianying gradually won the support of many foolish and ignorant Daoist disciples in the "Temple Festival Dao", and became the leader of the "Temple Festival Dao" after Li Fengchao. Sun Dianying took advantage of his status as the leader of the "Temple Fair Dao" and the tricks of the so-called spokesman of the gods to gather disciples and develop armaments. He often signaled to various localities to "temple fairs and roads" and asked the so-called spokesmen of God to mobilize the peasants of western Henan to join his ranks; during battles, most of the commanders he sent were designated through God's spokesmen to strengthen the conviction of officers and men. His method of using superstition to deceive was quite effective at that time. The vast majority of his troops were Daoist disciples of the "Temple Fair Dao" in western Henan and people from his hometown of Yongcheng, so they were able to resurrect after several ruptures. In 1922, Sun Dianying, who became acquainted with Ding Xiangling, the leader of the First Mixed Regiment of the Henan Army and the town guard envoy of Yuxi Province, was introduced by Sun Dianying through the purchase and transportation of drugs, and he was mixed with a deputy officer in the town guard embassy. Because of his collusion with Ding Xiangling to buy and transport drugs, he won Ding's trust, and within half a year, he was promoted to the commander of the gun company and actually became an officer. During the Second Zhifeng War, Sun Dianying took advantage of the opportunity to mutiny and successively attacked a number of county towns, and bandits and "temple fair" Daoist disciples in various parts of western Henan followed them. In the spring of 1925, Hu Jingyi fought a scuffle with Yukun, and Sun Dianying and other bandits in western Henan were absorbed by Yukun, and Sun served as the brigade commander of the Fifth Mixed Brigade. After the defeat of Yukun, Sun switched to the Nationalist Army and was promoted to division commander C. When the Nationalist Third Army was moving from western Henan to Shaanxi, he broke away from the nationalist army and wandered around western Henan. After that, he defected to Zhang Zongchang, who came out of banditry, and gradually developed into a small military clique under his egg wings. During the Northern Expedition, Sun Dianying's troops were defeated and retreated to the area around Malanyu in Jixian County, Tianjin, and in a desperate situation, he bowed to Chiang Kai-shek and was appointed commander of the Twelfth Army of the Sixth Army. In 1928, the rogue Sun Dianying single-handedly created the Tanglin treasure theft case that caused a sensation in the country. When he led his troops to the area of Malanyu in Jixian County, he saw the huge Qing Dynasty mausoleums, and he suddenly became a thief and wanted to do the work of digging graves and robbing tombs. The excavation was carried out by his engineer battalion commander, Zhao Sun Ziyu, who began operations one night in June, first digging up Cixi's grave and then excavating the tomb of the Qianlong Emperor. After opening the stone door, Sun Ziyu personally led the sappers into the palace where the coffin was parked under the supervision of Sun Dianying's cronies, and in addition to removing all the burial items other than the coffin, in order to collect more treasures, he also split the coffin, and the corpse was also moved to the ground, destroying all the treasures placed inside the coffin and the treasures worn on the corpse. They robbed the tomb for three nights. After stealing the treasure, Sun Dianying came to the base from Jixian County by car, and after inspecting the treasure, he filled it with five large suitcases, which he personally sealed and stamped, and handed them back to his cronies to take back to the Jixian Headquarters. After the tomb robbery, Sun Dianying moved his troops to Yanqing County and reorganized it into the Second Independent Infantry Brigade. At this time, the Manchu people in Malanyu discovered that the tombs of the Qianlong Emperor and Cixi had been excavated, and immediately reported them to the local authorities for investigation. Soon, Sun Dianying sent someone to Peiping with some jewelry for secret sale, so the case had already attracted the attention of the military and police in various localities, and just when the seller was trading with the jewelry merchant, the Peiping investigation team arrested both the buyer and the seller on the spot, and sent them to the Pingjin Garrison Commandery along with the stolen goods. Tan Wenjiangshi, the commander of Sun Dianying's division, contacted He Chengjun and Xu Yuanquan in Beiping and was also arrested and interrogated. After this news came out, newspapers across the country carried the scandal of Sun Dianying's theft of treasures from Dongling. Upon hearing the news, Puyi immediately summoned the qing family elders and jointly filed a complaint with the National Government, demanding that Sun Dianying be arrested and severely punished according to law. Sun Dianying saw that the situation was serious, but tried in many ways to strive for liberation. It is said that he selected some rare treasures from the stolen goods and secretly gave them to Song Meiling and asked them to intercede on their behalf. Sure enough, this generous gift played a great role, although the plaintiff repeatedly urged, the national public opinion also attached great importance to this case, but Sun Dianying still went unpunished and did not receive any punishment. In addition to the treasures of The Tanglin stolen by Sun Dianying, which were seized in Beiping and given to Song Meiling, it is said that most of the treasures stolen by Sun Dianying were taken to Shanghai by Li Delu, the chief of Sun's quartermaster department, and are being stolen in the process of being contacted, that is, they were stolen. When Sun Dianying himself took possession of a portion of it, when he attacked Ningxia in the future, he took a small part of it from his subordinate Yang Mingqing and handed it over to Tian Haiquan, the commander of the Jin army stationed in Baotou, for safekeeping. In addition, after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wang Zhonglian, commander-in-chief of the Thirty-first Group Army of the Kuomintang Army, entered Xiangbei, and Sun Dianying paid bribes to Wang Zhonglian with a huge amount of gold, and bribed Wang Zhonglian with treasures such as Qianlong's white jade wrench, white jade chain, and Zhou Dynasty copper ding obtained from the tomb robbery. Sun Dianying's banditry actually caused these precious items of extreme value to be wiped out without a trace. During the Great War in the Central Plains, Sun Dianying defected to Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan, and after the Great War in the Central Plains, he threw himself under Zhang Xueliang's footing. In the meantime, things like making drugs and forging currency are going to the extreme, really to the point where they can grab and steal, in the situation of warlords in the country. In the spring of 1943, Sun Dianying was besieged by the Japanese in Lin County, and Sun Dianying colluded with Kuomintang agents to defect to the enemy and treason. Liberation War period. Sun Dianying also attacked the liberated areas on behalf of Chiang Kai-shek, and as a result, Sun Bu was annihilated by the People's Liberation Army in one fell swoop at Tangyin, and Sun Dianying himself bowed down and captured him. During his detention, how could this "rogue warlord, who had been riding on the heads of the people for many years and committing evil deeds," be willing to be lonely, and become addicted to drugs, and soon after he died of depression, ending his ugly life.